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How did I become a linguist?

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated with languages. I was only 10 years old when I found myself reading a book in Portuguese and surprised because I could actually understand it without ever having studied it.
My mother is Italian and she always told me I had to learn Italian. I remember I would study it by myself using some old books and dictionaries, until I got a computer at 14 years old and then Busuu made my life easier. At 17 I was already living in Italy, studying at school and completely bilingual.
At 17 I was also completely fluent in English and started learning French at school in Rome. Although I’ve never had the chance to properly practice spoken French, I often read novels and translate from this language into Spanish.
At 18 I started working as a translator for a law firm in Rome. They helped me become who I am today, and for this reason at 21 I decided to study linguistics at the University of Turin. I graduated with a final grade of 108/110 (1st class honours). My thesis was about present day Neapolitan dialect.

Project Management

Being a linguist helped as a project manager. Now, being a project manager helped become even a better linguist!

In 2021 I had the amazing opportunity to work for GlobaLexicon, one of the leading translation agencies in Market Research in the UK. I managed hundreds of projects from and into different languages, from the quoting stage to the invoicing stage.

After being a PM, my skills as a translator have improved and my clients have noticed it. It does make a difference to be familiar with both sides of a project: the PM side and the linguistic side.

All my experiences have brought me where I am right now and I absolutely love it.